After confirming FBI probe, Martinez voices disdain for ‘cheap shots’
Gov. Susana Martinez on Monday confirmed a federal investigation into her top political advisor, Jay McCleskey, adding that she is “confident” he has done nothing wrong.
Asked during a public appearance in Albuquerque on Monday if she could confirm the federal probe into McCleskey, Martinez said “sure” and told reporters that federal agents have questioned her and members of her administration. In a statement issued to news organizations, Martinez said complaints that sparked the investigation “are obviously coming from the same people with axes to grind.”
“They failed against me, and now it appears they’ve moved on to people who work for me,” she said. “They’ll fail there too, and I am confident that neither Jay, nor anyone else, has done anything wrong. They can’t beat him, so they try to smear him. As a former prosecutor myself, I trust the system to look into and then reject these types of political cheap shots.”
Chris Sanchez, a Martinez spokesman, didn’t clarify later who the governor meant by “they” or what types of questions federal agents asked her in relation to the probe.
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